Chicora College for Women - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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Rev. S. C. Byrd, D. D., President

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Glljtntra C HICORA COLLEGE was organized in August, 1893, under the auspices of the three Presbyterian churches of Greenville. Rev. J. F. McKinnon was Principal from 1893 to 1895, and the Rev. S. R. Preston, D. D., from 1895 to 1898. In 1898 the institution failed and was reorganized by Dr. Preston as a stock company, and was so conducted by him until 1906. In the spring of 1906 a majority of the stock of the College was offered for sale to the Presbyteries of Bethel, Enoree, and South Carolina, of the Synod of South Carolina, on condition that the remainder of the stock be secured by the Presbyteries. The offer was accepted, and Trustees were appointed to secure a charter, to consummate the action of the Presbyteries, and to govern and control the College until their next regular meeting. “The Board of Trustees of Chicora College” was chartered May 30, 1906, and the transaction by which the College became the property of the Presbyteries was consummated on June 1, 1906, a majority of the stock being purchased for $30,500, and the remainder being received by donation. Those who generously donated their stock were: Mr. PI. F. Means, Mrs. M. J. Means, Mr. C. E. Graham, Dr. C. C. Jones, Capt. O. P. Mills, and the First Presbyterian Church of Greenvi lle. It being the desire and purpose of the three owning and controlling Presby¬ teries to have associated with themselves the other three Presbyteries of the Synod, they in the fall of 1906 overtimed the Presbyteries of Charleston, Harmony and Pee Dee to unite with them in the ownership and control of the College. The Presbyteries of Harmony and Pee Dee at their fall meeting accepted the offer, and it is expected that Charleston will take favorable action at its next regular meet¬ ing in the spring. The Board of Trustees elected to the Presidency of the College Rev. S. C. Byrd, D. D., who assumed the duties of the office June 1st, 1906. Chicora is a Christian College. It is established, maintained and conducted for the purpose of promoting Christian education in harmony with the Constitu¬ tion of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The supreme aim of the College is to make women; and its conception of womanhood is a graceful and vigorous body, a thoroughly disciplined mind, together with a high moral and spiritual character. Character is more ant than mere intellectual knowledge, and a trained conscience more valua. c than mere education. The supreme question of life is not intellectual but spiritual;